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Disaster Recovery 101
Oh dear, you've flashed your BIOS with the completely wrong image, haven't you?, What's that you say? - It failed mid-way through the flashing? - ugh! It's a serious problem if your BIOS is corrupt. This guide will give you the knowledge to get your system on the road to recovery. If you are not comfortable with any of the procedures discussed please ask for our help at any stage.

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source: India's National Newspaper

by maximum3d on Mon Oct 28 2002

Mahajan launches Simputer at SMAU 2002
The Communications and IT Minister, Pramod Mahajan, has launched India's indigenously developed low- cost handheld Personal Computer - Simputer - at an IT and Communication expo, SMAU 2002, in Milan.

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source: www.hardocp.com

by crossbow on Mon Oct 28 2002

Nforce2 and Granite Bay...Dual Channel DDR Lovin
The Aussies always seem to the hottest chicks, and now they've got the scoop on motherboards everyone else hasn't even seen yet. Check it out if your looking at buying either a Socket A, or Socket 478 board in the next few months, its a nice preview of yet announced boards.

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source: www.anandtech.com

by crossbow on Mon Oct 28 2002

Little Box of Love
Hexus.net takes a swing at mini-pc's with the new Shuttle Barebone, the SB51G. A tiny shoebox with SMT support. This thing just kicks ass.

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source: www.overclockers.com

by crossbow on Sun Oct 27 2002

Shhh...The Cpu is Cooling...
Vantec sets up to take the crown...the crown of heatsink performance, with their new VP4-C7040 P4 Cooler, using a YS-TECH TMD fan. Quiet, and extremely powerful, this fan actually makes it into the top three spot of overclockers.com's heatsink ratings system. (And there's is one of the best I've seen)